Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last eight years , Messrs. Wright & Sons have had the contract for the maintenance and working of the North and South Staffordshire Railways . ’ |
| 2 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 3 | A difficult birth was soon linked to a disputed paternity , for it was said that Hortense had had a lover — several names were suggested — and that Louis-Napoleon was the result of an illicit union . |
| 4 | The first time in weeks that Doyle had had the chance to lazily watch a football match , and almost immediately the phone goes . |
| 5 | I presumed that Prentice had had a word in somebody 's shell-like , or maybe nobody was very interested . |
| 6 | He knew that Hoggatt 's had a heartbeat — all institutions did — but the pulse eluded him . |
| 7 | Then as soon as the last act goes up Bobby will ring for a doctor and say that Bunty 's had an accident . |
| 8 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 9 | Some retailers will attempt to ‘ free ride ’ on others , perhaps offering low prices and a warehouse-type ambiance , once customers have had a product demonstrated elsewhere . |
| 10 | The feeling is that cheats have had an advantage and are also risking the tours . |
| 11 | It 's only in the last ten or twenty years that people have had the time or the money to have hobbies , especially to do with music or painting . |
| 12 | I ve just had a quick look at text and it says that Durie has had a shock recall Sheringham and Dozzel are definatly out and that Kerslake is doubtful . |
| 13 | Zwemmer chairman Philip Wilson said : ‘ Our six shops already have the largest stock of art books in the country , but this is the first time that Zwemmer has had a location that is suitable and at the centre of the art trade . ’ |
| 14 | The underlying inference was that Drew had had the pockets renewed because of some tell-tale stain . |
| 15 | On May 20 the Iraqi National Assembly issued a statement rejecting the decisions of the UN 's Iraq-Kuwait border demarcation committee , saying that Iraq strongly opposed the committee 's structure and the method it had followed , and that Iraq had had no say in choosing the three independent experts who sat on it . |
| 16 | It had been sent by her aunt 's neighbour who reported that Bertha had had an accident . |
| 17 | It would be wrong to deduce from this conclusion that unemployment has had no effect on mobility . |
| 18 | There was always a rumour that Noreen had had a baby to an Italian , but they had never heard the truth of it in Ireland . |
| 19 | Allchin began by admitting that Microsoft has had a problem communicating its approach to object technology and claimed he was on the panel to put the record straight : there are objects in Windows NT because there is an object management system in the kernel — its simply not exposed to users . |
| 20 | The proportion has changed very little in the 50 or so years that women have had the vote , and the current number is actually one less than that in 1945 . |
| 21 | We learn that John has had an affair with a fashion model ( Sunny Griffin ) , who moves in with her dresses , wigs and dog , but decides to leave after she has made a mess of the kitchen by boiling the spaghetti over . |
| 22 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 23 | If Isabel had had the energy she would have wiped the solicitous smile off his face . |
| 24 | Scully and Sons have had the job for as long as I can remember , not because they are any good but because they are ruddy cheap . |
| 25 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 26 | It was absurd ; if Parkes had had a gun it would n't have been a .22 . |
| 27 | And Bobby 's had a haircut by Gordon Burn |
| 28 | Gina and Nigel had had no guests for a year now . |
| 29 | It was already February , and Faye had had no problems since her return from hospital on Boxing Day . |
| 30 | It is only recently that Elizabeth and Helen have had the benefit of a full-time manager whose job is to provide support , supervision and leadership to staff working in their home . |